NEWS FETCH – August 22, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Glut Gives Treasury Wine An Earnings Hangover
• New Paso Website Launched For Winery Investors & Sellers
• Google Exec Joins Vintners’ Alliance Board
• California Labor Union Bill Clears Hurdle
• Jadot Buys Oregon Pinot Noir Vineyard
• NakedWines.com Puts $10 Mil Into Global Expansion
• Will Next 10 Years BelongTo Chinese Wines?

HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Calif Wineries Scramble For Harvest
• Grape harvest kicks off in Sonoma County
• NZ: Marlborough celebrates record 2013 harvest
• The 2013 harvest begins in France and Spain

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• How Treasury Is Ditching Its Excess Sonoma Wine
• International Wine Associates Advises Jadot On Resonance Buy
• Mexican-American Winemakers Making a Name
• Santa Barbara County opts out of govt vineyard talks with Chumash
• Yefim Bronfman Wins Grammy, Gets Paid in Napa Wine
• Spotlight on The Pending Ballard Canyon AVA
• Cecchetti Makes Inc. 500 For 3rd Yr

• The Cleanest Grapevine Material In The World Should Get Special Treatment [Sponsored Email Link]

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Distell buoyed by growth in Africa
• Treasury profits hit by US problems

FINANCE, M&A

• CRE, Tesco may submit bid for HK retail chain

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Bid:offer ratios rise for non-Bordeaux

• Investing in Liquid Assets: Uncorking Profits in Today’s Global Wine Market [Sponsored Link]

MARKETING & SALES

• New Zealand Wines on the Up in U.S.
• In Napa Valley, Cocktails Pressuring Wine
• Is the customer always right?
• The Case of STOLI & 3 Ways to Avoid Badmouthing a Rival
• With wine labels, it’s what’s in back that counts
• Hospitality Happy Hour Launches Concierge Video Series

• Wine Brands: Success Strategies for New Markets, New Consumers and New Trends [Sponsored Link]

LOW-ALCOHOL WINES

• Enough to drive you to drink
• Searching for lower limits in France

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Lunch With Calif’s Lt. Governor of Wine
• Why International Winemaking Style drives some people crazy
• West Sonoma Coast: Distinctive, Cool Climate Pinot, Chardonnay & Syrah
• Breadth or Depth?
• From Blogger to Winemaker: The Wines of Two Shepherds
• New research sheds light on flavour additives in wine

• The Wine Bible [Sponsored Link]

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Death on the farm a grim reality of agriculture
• WSU: Why Fine a Wine, Field Guide, Contribute to Science
• Muscadine diseases
• When A New Technology Saved The French Wine Industry

• Understanding Wine Technology, 3rd Edition [Sponsored Link]

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Avero & BinWise to Automate Beverage Inventory Management
• Delectable brings cutting edge tech to ancient pursuit of wine

HEALTH

• Differences between wine and other alcoholic beverages in terms of adverse consequences

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Wine -drinker lobby gives Calif laws an A+; New York gets a D+

EUROPE & THE UK

• Affluent parts of UK put fizz back into Champagne sales

• Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure [Sponsored Link]

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: wine export value on the rise
• OZ: 8 million Aussie drink sparkling wine regularly

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• NZ Ambassador Talks Wine in China

LATIN AMERICA

• Eight winemakers from Argentina spotlight the quality of Malbec

 

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Coravin system review
• They Call It ‘Noble Rot’ (Botrytis)
• Wine Sippy Cup. Really?

• 1001 Wines You Must Taste Before You Die [Sponsored Link]

OLIVE OIL

• Spain’s Sierra del Moncayo Seeks Protected Designation of Origin Status